Most musical phenomena involve repetitive structures that enable listeners to track meter, i.e. the tactus or beat, the longer over-arching measure or bar, and possibly other related layers. Meters with long measure duration, ...

A supervised approach to metrical cycle tracking from audio is presented,/nwith a main focus on tracking the tāḷa, the hierarchical cyclic/nmetrical structure in Carnatic music. Given the tāḷa of a piece, we aim/nto estimate ...

This article provides insights into aspects of tempo and rhythmic elaboration in Hindustani music, based on a study of a large corpus of recorded performances. Typical tempo developments and stress patterns within a metrical ...

We address the unexplored problem of percussion pattern/ndiscovery in Indian art music. Percussion in Indian art music uses onomatopoeic oral mnemonic syllables for the transmission of repertoire and technique. This is ...

The aim of this paper is to identify and discuss various methods in computational rhythm description of Carnatic and Hindustani music of India, and Makam music of Turkey. We define and describe three relevant rhythm ...

The goal of this study is the automatic detection of onsets of the singing voice in polyphonic audio recordings. Starting with a hypothesis that the knowledge of the current position in a metrical cycle (i.e. metrical ...

Recent approaches in meter tracking have successfully applied Bayesian models. While the proposed models can be adapted to different musical styles, the applicability of these flexible methods so far is limited because ...

In many cultures of the world, traditional percussion music/nuses mnemonic syllables that are representative of the timbres/nof instruments. These syllables are orally transmitted/nand often provide a language for percussion ...